How To Install libjs-polymaps on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libjs-polymaps on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is libjs-polymaps
libjs-polymaps is:
Polymaps is a JavaScript library for making dynamic, interactive maps in modern web browsers.
Polymaps provides speedy display of multi-zoom datasets over maps, and supports a variety of visual presentations for tiled vector data, in addition to the usual cartography from OpenStreetMap, CloudMade, Bing, and other providers of image-based web maps.
Because Polymaps can load data at a full range of scales, it’s ideal for showing information from country level on down to states, cities, neighborhoods, and individual streets.
Polymaps also uses SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) to display information: for this reason you can use CSS rules to define the design of your data.
There are three methods to install libjs-polymaps on Ubuntu 18.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install libjs-polymaps Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install libjs-polymaps using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libjs-polymaps
Install libjs-polymaps Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install libjs-polymaps using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libjs-polymaps
Install libjs-polymaps Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install libjs-polymaps using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libjs-polymaps
How To Uninstall libjs-polymaps on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the libjs-polymaps package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libjs-polymaps
Uninstall libjs-polymaps And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libjs-polymaps and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libjs-polymaps
Remove libjs-polymaps Configurations and Data
To remove libjs-polymaps configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libjs-polymaps
Remove libjs-polymaps configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libjs-polymaps configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libjs-polymaps
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libjs-polymaps package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
